Matt Connarton Unleashed: SuperBug

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Look for Monday. I put the record off. It took
me so I will not stop stop dead.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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Speaker 3 (00:32):
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Speaker 2 (01:09):
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Speaker 1 (01:30):
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Speaker 3 (01:47):
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Speaker 3 (02:12):
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Speaker 5 (02:17):
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Speaker 1 (02:38):
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(02:59):
doesn't all.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Sunday.

Speaker 6 (03:32):
If that doesn't get your moving, check your pulse, you
might be dead. Welcome back, everybody. We have entered our
number two Numarados of Matt Connerton unleashed. If you are
listening live on Saturday, today is Saturday, August sixteen. We
are broadcasting live from the studios of w m n
H ninety five point three FM in Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire.

(03:53):
Jenny is here as well, of course at the news table,
and we have with us in studio three of the
members of the band Superbug. And that track that we
just heard, Invasive Species is uh, that's that's such a
great song.

Speaker 7 (04:07):
Welcome guys, uh, thank you, thank you great to be here.

Speaker 6 (04:10):
Let's start with you, sir in the corner. Why don't
you each tell us who you are what you do
in the band.

Speaker 8 (04:15):
I'm Justin and I'm the vocalist.

Speaker 7 (04:18):
Hey Justin, I am reb and I am a guitar player.

Speaker 6 (04:22):
Pretty easy to remember.

Speaker 9 (04:23):
Yes, and you, sir, I'm Parker, I'm the drummer.

Speaker 6 (04:28):
Okay, and no, uh and the bass players. I'll tell
you those bass players. The bass players what he abducted
by aliens or something?

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Is he is?

Speaker 7 (04:35):
He gets subducted regularly. Yeah, he's the local man of
mystery for us. Yes, but we don't want to diminish
him by not being here because he's the sound.

Speaker 6 (04:45):
Oh absolutely absolutely, that's what opens that song. Is he
hear the first thing you hear is that bassline? I
love it. I love it. You guys have a great
have a great sound. How do you even how do
you describe what you do? Because everyone always hates this question,
but how do you describe your own I.

Speaker 7 (04:58):
Got you okay that it is progressive punk funk with
like a sprinkle of metal and a little hip hop too. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I say that's pretty close.

Speaker 6 (05:08):
I can hear all that. Yeah, absolutely absolutely. We're gonna
play some of the other tracks to later in the uh,
later in the segment, but no, it's really good. Gets
you moving. How long have you guys been around? I know,
I know it's been a while because I you definitely
have a following because I saw people online were like,
oh cool, superbug you know people, people are excited that
you're coming on the show today. So I mean, you

(05:28):
guys been been at this while or.

Speaker 9 (05:31):
Yeah, yeah, four or five years?

Speaker 7 (05:34):
Okay, okay, I've been with them for four years right
about now? Actually, oh okay. So they were a thing
prior to me coming in.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (05:42):
Matter of fact, I was in a different band. I
watched them play and I was so jealous because I
thought they were so cool. Yeah, but I did think
that maybe a new guitar player would suit them better. Right,
So when the opportunity came up, I had to jump
on it.

Speaker 6 (05:54):
Yeah, that's that's always cool when you know, you see
a band and you think, wow, that's a band I'd
like to be in, and then it happens.

Speaker 7 (06:03):
Yeah, I was jealous.

Speaker 10 (06:04):
I like their energy, and I was actually shock my
first guitar player he didn't. We wanted to push it further.
You can play out a lot, and he didn't. He
wasn't really into that, and he said, maybe you guys
should find another guitar player.

Speaker 8 (06:16):
So really, we know, we know a guy.

Speaker 6 (06:18):
So it sounds like it was amicable then.

Speaker 10 (06:20):
Right, Yeah, absolutely, And it worked great because read was
perfect for I couldn't believe how well, because I've known
these guys well, justin since, you know, great school.

Speaker 7 (06:29):
Yeah, I didn't. I he was singing. I heard it
through the grapevine in town. I'm like what, And I
watched and I was like, Wow, he's up there killing it.

Speaker 6 (06:36):
I really dig it. Oh that's cool. Yeah, because one
of the hardest things, you know, from my own experience
being in the band is, you know, you've always got
people with varying levels of commitment and and and even
varying degrees of ambition, Right, so if you have somebody
who's you know, it sucks when you have somebody in
the band who's kind of holding you back a little bit,
not because they're not talented or anything like that, but
just because they're kind of looking at it like, yeah,

(06:57):
this is more this is more of a hobby to
me and not much of a passion, you know, And
it kind of sounds like that's what you were dealing with.

Speaker 7 (07:03):
I think we've all been there, not in just the
previous iteration of Superbug, but also other bands we've been in.

Speaker 8 (07:08):
Sure, Well, yeah, he was in another band and the
bass player didn't really want.

Speaker 7 (07:14):
To play out, so similar situation.

Speaker 8 (07:16):
Yeah, So we were like, well, we mus as well
join forces here and.

Speaker 7 (07:19):
Not that though. We like to hang out like we're
generally friends, like yeah, even if we're not jamming, if
there's an opportunity to go see another band or go somewhere,
we travel on a pack. It's kind of like we
form like vultron.

Speaker 6 (07:30):
That's good. That's good. So obvious question. Where does his
name Superbug come from?

Speaker 8 (07:36):
Why?

Speaker 6 (07:36):
Superbug?

Speaker 7 (07:37):
This is actually funny, So in the bug bar and
where we rehearse In my house, I've got an old
Nixon poster from the seventies, a screen print of him
basically trying to bug the Democratic National Party and at
the bottom of the print says Superbug.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Oh wow.

Speaker 7 (07:53):
And we had our number one fan, Sean Kelly Money
shout out. He saw it on the on the poster.
He said, why not Superbug? Because I think they were
Pine Tree Riot previously, which.

Speaker 6 (08:04):
You know, not horrible but uh interesting, right, pine Tree Riot.

Speaker 7 (08:08):
So Superbug became you know, just by choice. We'd like
to have it as one word, but for the uh
iTunes and Spotify purposes, separating it into two words kind
of made it easier to search.

Speaker 6 (08:20):
Okay, okay, yeah, I wondered about that, because I even
went back and edited the initial post. Still, I think
of the post I put about today's show, I've got
put it in two words, and I changed one word.
But I think I then there's that that compromise thing
you can do where it's one word, but you've got
bug is capitalized, so it's.

Speaker 7 (08:35):
It doesn't really matter. Yeah, down's the same, you say.

Speaker 6 (08:38):
Right, right, that's true. That's true.

Speaker 7 (08:40):
Now, you guys playing out a lot, Yeah, I got
a list here if you're curiousness to win, absolutely absolutely,
And I want to give a shout out to the
Superbug wives for letting us play out, because you know,
it's definitely a tricky compromise to make, and we're spending
all this time playing music and going out and yeah,
you know, it's a lot of Saturday nights giving up.
So shout out to the ladies out there for supporting us.

Speaker 6 (08:59):
Nice.

Speaker 7 (08:59):
Yeah, but no, we have one next weekend Molehill Theater
in Alsted with our friends the Evocatives, who are tremendous
auspicious brew on nine thirteen. Up in Dover Button Factory
in Portsmouth on nine twenty seven with Mercury Burns first
also a Hillsborough.

Speaker 6 (09:13):
Oh, we had them on the show. Plus I've known
Jay forever. Yeah, really great band.

Speaker 9 (09:17):
Yeah, we're looking forward to that.

Speaker 6 (09:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (09:19):
We're playing October Fest at the Auburn Pitts Hanneker Brewing
Company on ten seventeen, and then Auspicious Underground in Nashua
in November. Okay, So you know, it's funny. I don't
know if there's any other bands going out dealing with
this sort of thing. We basically play our own stuff.
We don't really do any covers.

Speaker 6 (09:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (09:37):
So there's a point in the winter, probably from December
to April, where it seems like all hope is lost
and you're never going to play a show again, and
you're depressed. And then all of a sudden, you know,
May June hits and you just we've had to turn
stuff down. She's a great place to be in.

Speaker 6 (09:53):
You know, that's a great problem math Yeah.

Speaker 7 (09:54):
Yeah, yeah, So we're really thankful for anybody giving us
an opportunity to play anywhere.

Speaker 11 (09:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (10:00):
Are there other bands in the area that you guys
kind of you know what happens organically. Are there other
bands that you've kind of teamed up with where you
just Yeah, play a lot of shows.

Speaker 7 (10:06):
The Evocatives out of Keene. They're fantastic. Check them out.
Big shout out to Andrew North and the Rangers.

Speaker 6 (10:12):
Oh yeah, we've had them on amazing and they.

Speaker 7 (10:14):
Andrews the open Mic Night, the open Mic Night kind
of that they were doing an area twenty three and conquered.
We went in twenty probably twenty twenty three early and
we were just Hillsborough. We never get out of Hillsboro.
So the fact that we went there we played people
dug us. It gave us confidence to say, hey, we
could actually go out and do this.

Speaker 6 (10:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (10:32):
And Andrew's been a big supporter of us. You know,
we played their showcase last November with them. He sat
in with us a few times. Great Dudes, Loud Pipes
Productions also another one.

Speaker 10 (10:42):
And lady who say, wasn't I said, and lady, Yes, lady,
there's a lady in the band too.

Speaker 7 (10:48):
He said, Great Dudes, Oh I gotcha, Okay, I didn't
know where he was going with ye.

Speaker 6 (10:52):
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (10:53):
Shout out to Jay Rock.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (10:56):
And then you know the Hillsborough bands that are great.
Hobo Wizard is cool if you haven't checked them out too, So.

Speaker 6 (11:01):
As somebody else, Jenny, do you remember that name? Somebody
else mentioned them too on the show. I forget who
it was who mentioned them recently, Hobo Wizard, I don't remember. Yeah,
that came up recently though.

Speaker 7 (11:10):
And then Parker also plays with Stage and the Tumbleweeds
who are Crazing. And then I play in Dent Out
of Hillsborough. So okay, yeah, Hillsborough Drug Deal Gone rad
is out of there. I mean, by the way, best
drug deal, right, drug Deal gun d check them out?

Speaker 6 (11:29):
A great name.

Speaker 7 (11:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Hillsborough's popping. They got it's it's actually
got some pretty cool live stuff. Yeah, Mercury Burns first, Yeah,
Shredded Heaven's Redded Heaven. Yeah, yep, that's a cool name too.

Speaker 11 (11:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (11:40):
There's so much well we're talking off here about this too.
There's so much incredible talent around here, you know, because
sometimes like Jenny does a booking and sometimes somebody will
ask her, you know, where do you find her? Or
they'll ask me, where does Jenny find all all these
artists to come on the show, And I'm like, well,
I'm magic. Yes, there is that, but there's also there's
so much talent around here. It's it's amazing. That's exactly
what it is.

Speaker 12 (12:02):
Yes, I understand more now why it's hard for people
to make it because there is so much balent out there.
You know, I didn't realize it until we started doing this.

Speaker 6 (12:12):
Yeah. Oh yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 7 (12:14):
It really seems this year like things they're starting to
pick up. I don't know, it's weird, like the paper
jam thing that's coming out. Ye, shout out to Shila
and Tony. Great people. We love paper jams.

Speaker 11 (12:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (12:24):
So the fact that we get that and in this,
you know, it's like things are starting to pop. So
it's pretty cool.

Speaker 6 (12:29):
We should mention that too. So you're in the current issue.

Speaker 7 (12:32):
September October issue September.

Speaker 6 (12:33):
October, you're gonna be like, Okay, oh fantastic.

Speaker 7 (12:35):
Yeah, check the page out. They got great stuff and
they're great content, content and really nice people.

Speaker 6 (12:40):
Yeah. They've been sending us the both the you know,
because the two versions as a color version of the
black and white version, and they actually sent us both
last time. They have our they have the Matt Connerton
on Leash logo right in the front, which we love.
We love. No, they're they're amazing and they're you know
it's it's the thing that's impressive, because we had them
on the show too and interviewed them, and what's impressed
them about paper Jam is, you know, there's a perception that,

(13:03):
you know, any kind of print media is kind of
dead and that, you know, because everything's online and and
but they've been very successful, you know, taking that risk.
I remember asking them about this too. I said, this
is quite a gamble that you took, you know, even
getting into this, because I'm sure people, although I was surprised.
I asked them, I said, did anyone try to talk
you out of it? And they said no. I said, Okay,

(13:24):
that surprises me. But I'm glad because, you know, because
here we are and they're doing incredibly, incredibly well.

Speaker 7 (13:30):
It's a great service for the bands out there.

Speaker 11 (13:31):
You know.

Speaker 7 (13:32):
They bought us pizza, they talked to us. You know,
you get to play some songs for him, They did
a photo shoot. I mean super cool. You know, for listen,
we're not going to make any money or become real
rock stars, but to get a little slice of it,
that's super cool.

Speaker 6 (13:44):
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I'm also curious about where you record
because I love I love your sound, I love the production.
It's all really good.

Speaker 7 (13:52):
We did that right here in the Mills, New Hampshire Tunes. Okay,
shut out to Zaine MacDonald. Okay, yeah, said we did, Daniel.
Sorry again, we did it that record. We did it
in about seven hours of recording. All the takes are
basically first or second take, mostly first. Yeah, no overdubs.

Speaker 8 (14:12):
I think essentially live album.

Speaker 7 (14:14):
Yeah, okay, I doubled the one guitar solo I think
on blame Game at the end, and then even the
vocal takes that we did afterwards. Uh, maybe one song
had two Yeah, I no patience for perfection, probably detrimentally,
but you know, we like to keep it raw.

Speaker 6 (14:30):
I think it works for what you're doing. I think
it does, and it does sound live. It's it's got that,
it's got an energy to it that that comes through
that way.

Speaker 7 (14:37):
If you watch a live version of the song you
just played, it's almost gonna sound identical. Really, it's it's
just our sound.

Speaker 6 (14:43):
Yeah, yeah, well we should play let's play another track
from the These are all from the album right there.

Speaker 7 (14:48):
Yeah, Hesitation, Jelly out now on Spotify, iTunes, all that
fun stuff.

Speaker 6 (14:52):
Oh okay, I have to know before we go any further.
Hesitation jelly?

Speaker 3 (14:56):
What what? What is that?

Speaker 7 (14:58):
Worm? You can tell them this is this even something?
Then you can tell on the air.

Speaker 6 (15:01):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 10 (15:03):
Nobody would ever guess where it came from. I have
four boys at home, and one of my sons walked
into the the living room while I was sitting there
having a beer and he and he did this little
jig back and forth and he said, hesitation jelly, and
I was like what I And it was, you know,

(15:23):
he was acting like he was dribbling a basketball and
and you know, hesitation is you know, the move that
you're doing while you're dribbling or whatever.

Speaker 8 (15:32):
And I guess, jelly is you know, if you're good
at it, you're like jelly.

Speaker 10 (15:36):
I don't know, but I and then I texted the
band and I said, if we ever have an album,
we got to call it hesitation Jelly, you know, And
and they were down with it. And then actually I
forgot all about it. And then when we made the album,
Reeb said, yeah, hesitation jelly, and I was like, oh,
I forgot all about that. You know, that's great, but it's.

Speaker 8 (15:53):
Something that nobody would ever I have any idea where
it came from.

Speaker 7 (15:56):
I have a different explanation. I like to tell people
that it's it's why jelly with some stand in it.
You're gonna hesitate to use that.

Speaker 6 (16:03):
That's right. Well, on that note, we'll get to the
what should we play next?

Speaker 7 (16:08):
Hmm, I say, let's put it just go song? What
do you think?

Speaker 6 (16:12):
What is that?

Speaker 7 (16:13):
Feeling the need?

Speaker 9 (16:13):
Feeling the need, feeling the need?

Speaker 6 (16:15):
All right, uh, let's see. Oh, here we go. Got this? Okay? Uh,
here it is. This is feeling the need. This is superbug.
This is really good.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
My thoughts are heavy, random, down, swirling foggo.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
What I got?

Speaker 1 (17:00):
He don't go feeling? I could enough? Gis it enough?

Speaker 3 (17:05):
I could enough?

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Say they won't have to please think that they go.

Speaker 12 (17:13):
The en.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Well, just non sense to die. You know, you gotta try.
Never you wander where when they will come up in

(17:44):
you shouldn't believe in yourself.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
They don't the fact you person? What's your father? The brains?
And gainy five?

Speaker 3 (17:55):
My fat?

Speaker 13 (17:56):
What you come in.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
When it up from the hor He was like, the
best way to start, So we get off, Brady. She
gave up. She said, the tai take you off with baby.
It's time to sto creation.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
Might be a good time.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Because now we's kinda shine. Never to wander ware when
it will come a This.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
Might be a good time.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Because now we're time to shine, never to wander.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Ware when it will come up. You got just feeling

(19:11):
in the.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
Back of your mind, like maybe get a mess if
you went there one sometime. Do tho's around?

Speaker 3 (19:17):
You wants being mad? All the people who's a round?

Speaker 1 (19:19):
You want the living dead? So you gotta up your
nuts and you stick the mountain.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Look if it's your wins coming out, you sup the
hair rou your nose.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
Now you moping up your.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Com first feeling the good the river on perform when
it's a bumble bo.

Speaker 14 (19:37):
Creating line, create your mind, create the sky, created fi.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
Create and fly.

Speaker 3 (19:59):
Crea.

Speaker 6 (20:08):
Oh, I love that feeling the need. The band is
Superbug and the album is Hesitation Jelly, which is fun
to say too if you are just joining us. We
have the guys from Superbug here in studio with us,
or most of the band anyway. But yeah, that's really cool.
So we were talking off air about that song. Actually
pretty interesting.

Speaker 7 (20:27):
Yeah, So I had originally written that for another band
I was in, but just they weren't feeling it, so yeah,
almost out of spite, I was like, I'm gonna take
this and I'm gonna make something of it. Yeah, And
so we played it, and if you listen to the
second verse you hear those high pitched vocals come in.
That was the actual song. Those were the actual vocals
that were on it. Yeah, But I didn't want to
do it because in this band we have kind of

(20:49):
our duties. You know, Worm does all the words. Excuse me,
Justin does all the words. So I didn't want to
dictate what he was going to think, because you don't
like that. So I let him do his own thing
over it. And after playing it for a while, I said,
you know what, I'm gonna try doing the original words
in the second verse behind it, okay, And it just
gave it a little bit of a lift and sounded cool.

Speaker 9 (21:06):
So we kept yeah.

Speaker 7 (21:07):
Yeah, and actually that's the song Parker learned a disco beat.

Speaker 9 (21:10):
For too, Okay, Okay, it's we call it the disco song.

Speaker 6 (21:13):
Yes, okay, that makes sense. Yeah, I was saying too
off air to me. Of the four that that you sent,
that's that's the most interesting in terms of how it's
arranged and and you know you've got the uh. I
love that, you know, that first build up there where
it's like, oh, it's changing, but it all works, It
all flows so perfectly.

Speaker 7 (21:33):
I tried to write a song I wanted something the
A string. It's in A but the the low A
is through every or everything, so all it's just variations
on A chords within that. So yeah, the A string
is always ringing out on it. And that was the
challenge because I think crazy train like the verse for
you know, ozsy and that chugging, but all those are
kind of iterations of A that work with it. Yeah,
that was what I was shooting for.

Speaker 6 (21:54):
Yeah, yeah, and the uh you know, and the change
with the drums too. Oh yeah.

Speaker 7 (21:58):
Like I said, there was a white stripe beat just
to give you.

Speaker 6 (22:01):
That yeah, simple yeah, yeah, no, that's that's really cool?

Speaker 11 (22:04):
Is that?

Speaker 6 (22:06):
Is that hard to pull off live at all? Or
work pretty well?

Speaker 7 (22:09):
Like you said, any of the stuff you hear on
the record, that's basically a live recording, and uh, these
are all things that are in our set currently.

Speaker 6 (22:16):
Yeah. Yeah. Do you guys have do you guys have
anything that you that you play that you haven't recorded yet?

Speaker 7 (22:22):
Oh, we've got tons. We've got probably two more records
worth the stuff, no kidding, We've got thirty six originals.
I think, oh my god, they're always coming. Just it's
very creative group. But I've never it's never flowed so easily. Yeah,
for anything I've been in and everybody contributes to, uh,
they sometimes the songs come a little bit different. Adam,
who I think really is the soul of Superbug, his

(22:42):
songs are the ones that jump out to me as
far as being unique. Yeah, I think that he'll come
in with a whole song done. Yeah, but we all
sprinkle our bits and I could come in with the
whole thing, or we're just jamming and improving and something
might strike a nerve.

Speaker 6 (22:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (22:55):
But then there's some songs. We've got a song time
that we worked on for like a year. Yeah, I mean,
and it was like we kept adding, subtracting, you know,
perfecting it. So it kind of depends on the song.
But yeah, I think our most recent one Greek to Me,
which you know comes to us live. You'll hear it.
That one Adam came with and he came in with
it full and I think we had it down in
two takes, played right, there it was good. Yeah, and

(23:17):
then Worm came up with words in no time. And
sometimes they just come quick like that.

Speaker 6 (23:21):
But I always say, you know, that's how you know
you've really got something right when it comes easy, you know,
when you don't have to you know, I mean, it
can be a lot of work and whatnot. But but
when you've when you've got something, if somebody has an
idea or just you know, it just seems to manifest
really quickly, then you know you've got something special, right.
And then it's nice to be in a band right
where it's where it's easy like that.

Speaker 7 (23:40):
And we also have like no limits as far as
what we want to try. All we really try and
do is not duplicate something we've already done. You know,
let's mix it up and have the chorus start first,
so let's not have a bridge here, or let's have it,
you know, a pre chorus or something. I don't want
to be repetitive like. And we also a key thing
is we want everybody to be able to be heard,

(24:01):
you know, we want a nice even mix, so everybody
stands out kind of.

Speaker 6 (24:04):
Yeah. How many tracks are on Hesitation Jelly ten? Ten? Okay,
yep and why why did you decide this? I'm always
really curious about with everybody because you know, you've got
a lot of options in terms of do you do singles,
do you do an EP, do you do full album?
You know, when I was growing up, it was like
there was a standard formula, you know, pre Internet, it was, uh,

(24:25):
you know, you've got an album, You've got first single
goes to radio maybe six eight weeks before the album.
Then the album comes out, and then maybe there's more
singles if you're lucky, and that's it. But today there's
so many different ways to release music. So what went
into your decision to release a full album?

Speaker 7 (24:42):
I'm old school.

Speaker 8 (24:43):
I like albums. Yeah, yeah, I still listen to a
full album.

Speaker 7 (24:47):
To me, that what the artist wants you to hear.
He put the tracks in a certain order, you know
what I mean. These are the songs that they I'm sorry,
I mean to say, he that they're presenting.

Speaker 6 (24:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (24:57):
Yeah, I'm a stickler for that. Yeah yeah, because even
like some of my vinyl records, you know, they get
that one song you want to skip over, Sure, still
you got to listen to it because it's there right right.
So yeah, CDs kind of ruined the album format a
bit because you could have the capability to skip over it. Yeah,
but yeah, I guess just old school. We like vinyl
and we like, you know, a presentation of a record

(25:19):
versus just a single. Yeah, and impatience too, like I
hate it. When it's here, you're gonna get a single, right,
and then a month later another single, month later another single,
and then a month after that the record. Yeah, I
just want the record right right?

Speaker 6 (25:32):
Yeah, no, I get that, have you guys? I put
out CDs as is available on CD.

Speaker 7 (25:36):
Or only vinyl only?

Speaker 6 (25:38):
Really?

Speaker 7 (25:39):
Yeah? Yeah, CDs to me or passe.

Speaker 6 (25:41):
Oh that's interesting for real? So this is on vinyl
but not on CD.

Speaker 7 (25:45):
Ok, you can get a vinyl come to our shows.
We got you.

Speaker 6 (25:48):
That's cool, that's cool. Nothing sounds better than vinyl. Yeah.
Actually yeah, we were talking before the segment about there
is a record player here. Actually I've never used it,
but it does work. I wanted the host uses it,
I think, but it plugs in and everything. But yeah,
and we do have actually we have a CD player
too here, but I think the only one who uses it.

(26:08):
You guys know, Rob Rob as a veto from Granted
State of mind.

Speaker 7 (26:11):
Yeah he uh, he drew it, did a write up
on us. We did open mic night at the Bankingwhampshire.
Oh nice, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh cool.

Speaker 6 (26:17):
Yeah yeah he uses the CD player here, but I
think he's the only one who uses that.

Speaker 7 (26:22):
Yeah, he has a nice venue up there.

Speaker 6 (26:24):
Oh yeah, Pembroke City Limits.

Speaker 7 (26:25):
Is we love Yeah, we'd love to play it.

Speaker 6 (26:27):
Yeah, absolutely, yeah, you guys would be great there. Absolutely
So no no plans to.

Speaker 7 (26:33):
Uh put out a CD or no, no, no, okay,
I mean who has a CD player. I've got three
hundred and thirty CDs up in my attic. Yeah, some
of them I can't find on iTunes or whatever. But
I got no way to listen to him. I don't
have a CD player, right.

Speaker 10 (26:47):
My eighteen year old son has found CDs for some reason.
He's been grabbing all my old ones, and yeah, I
don't know where that came from. But I don't listen
to CDs.

Speaker 6 (26:56):
But yeah, we we get a lot of a lot
of our guests will bring us a CD and it's like,
and you know, I put it on display in the
office slash podcast studio at home, but it becomes a
part of the you know, it becomes a part of
the studio, becomes a part of the vibe because I
I have nothing to play it on. Not, not at all.

(27:16):
I don't. If I want to play a CD, I
gotta come here. Yeah, I don't think this. Uh, this
old laptop I have doesn't even have one on it anymore.
You don't have you don't have anything to play CD's on, right, Johnny,
You don't have anything to play CD is on. Not
in a long time.

Speaker 7 (27:29):
No, it's sad for me because there's I have old
Imperial teen and shown in Knife CDs from the nineties. Yeah,
and you can't get those music for some reason on
iTunes or Spotify. You can't get them on vinyl. The
only way to listen to it on CD.

Speaker 6 (27:43):
Okay, right right.

Speaker 7 (27:45):
I don't know if there's a hold up with the
label or what, but yeah, fix that stuff.

Speaker 6 (27:49):
Yeah, this there's some there's some reason for it.

Speaker 8 (27:51):
One Minute Silence was the same way for a long
time as a band I really liked, and you couldn't
find it on Spotify for a long.

Speaker 6 (27:57):
Oh really yeah, Yeah, this is a little bit of sidetrack.
But did you guys see the We talked about it
on the show Lord, she put out a clear CD.
Did you see that?

Speaker 5 (28:07):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (28:07):
I read about it.

Speaker 6 (28:08):
And there's a problem because unless you have like a
really really new CD player, you can't even play it,
Like it won't play unless you've got a very new
CD player because it can't it just can't read it.
Like if you put it in your in your car
stereo CD player, it just it'll spit it back out.

Speaker 7 (28:23):
I've actually bought cassettes. Like there's some bands that will
put cassettes out in the merch booth because they're cheap,
they're portable, they look cool. Yeah, so I've bought in
a few. Oh yeah, I see them out.

Speaker 5 (28:34):
You know.

Speaker 10 (28:35):
Our bass player was in a band from way way
back and back in just after high school maybe, and
I have his CD from then.

Speaker 8 (28:43):
Oh yeah, and it won't play in any of my CD.

Speaker 6 (28:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (28:46):
It's just too old, I think or something.

Speaker 7 (28:47):
But it's too bad because they lie to us when
they said they wouldn't degrade.

Speaker 6 (28:52):
Well I remember though too, because uh yeah, back in
the day when somebody would give me, you know, a
burned CD and and having to use like like having
to try it on a couple of different CD players
because some would play them, and some wouldn't. The thing
that I I talk about too, because I've been doing
I've been interviewing bands a long time and back before

(29:14):
it was just a matter of you know, using Dropbox
or Google Drive or something to send me the files.
Sometimes guests would show up with with a CD and
they would do the thing where it wouldn't even be
in a case. They would do the old h if
I had a CD here I demonstrate, but they do
the whole thing where they handed to you on a finger.
You know, it's like they put the CD on their finger.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Here you go.

Speaker 6 (29:33):
It's like, oh great, it's really professional. But now that's
that's really cool though, that it's out on vinyl.

Speaker 7 (29:42):
It's let me tell you, it's a trip here in
yourself on a record.

Speaker 6 (29:45):
That must be.

Speaker 7 (29:46):
Yeah, it's especially. That's the weird thing too, is you
know I never had aspirations, none of us did about
being rock stars. But yeah, there's bucket lists and being
in bands all lying to you right now. Yes, I
always wanted to be in my head, I still am.
But I always wanted to be on a record, which
we did that. And you know there's another station that's
played in vasive species a whole bunch.

Speaker 6 (30:06):
So oh yeah, here it was.

Speaker 7 (30:07):
You can say it well, one of four point nine
the Hawk.

Speaker 6 (30:10):
Yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 7 (30:12):
Region, that's excellent.

Speaker 6 (30:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (30:13):
So it's just these are cool things. And then actually,
if we play Boston, literally I met all the dreams
I wanted for music ever, Yeah, I'll be I'll be done. Yeah,
it's all it's left. And uh, it's almost happened twice.

Speaker 6 (30:26):
So yeah, yeah, very cool. We should play another track
from It's Fun to Say Hesitation Jelly the album. The
album only available on vinyl, which is very cool. What
should we play next? You guys can pick.

Speaker 7 (30:38):
It's either blame Game or Humanity. You guys, I don't
want to dictate you guys, pick do Humanity.

Speaker 9 (30:45):
Then we'll be a blame game.

Speaker 6 (30:46):
Later, do the Sound of Humanity. Yeah, and then we'll
play blame game at the end. Sure, all right, very cool.
Uh so, if you are just joining us, we have
Superbug here with us live in studio, and we're gonna
hit this track next. This is called the Sound of
a Few.

Speaker 15 (31:13):
Loons. Brad is Magic Spirit plays games with those facts
a useful sense of compassion. No one will ever get
the trade back tapping into genuine that boys calling from within,
press sure of instinct and intuition.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
Allow the money on jugle fish. I will free will
I love you know you know what free love our spirit,
freeze spirit. Listen up and know that you can hear

(31:54):
it falling on the ground. Give them a hit.

Speaker 16 (31:59):
Help the ones around you understand a little know when
all the people can't passing on the ability to share.
Chase a devil out on the way, Open up the
door for the plasondope, create for hear.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Them of every day. Maybe come to see through healthy.

Speaker 8 (32:17):
A little shop.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
I will free will.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
I love you know you know we read her.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Our spirit, freeze spirit. Listen up, cups and that you
could hear anything freeze sweet.

Speaker 10 (32:46):
Love.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
You know you know we freez her.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
I hear a de.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Listen up. I know that you can hear it.

Speaker 5 (33:50):
The sound of human Listen lees and you can hear
listen coats, you can hear the sound.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Of human Listen up close, you can hear it. Listen
enough and you can hear.

Speaker 13 (34:05):
The sound of humanity. The core of the rain and
the warmth of the sun.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Universe has a web.

Speaker 6 (34:25):
What smiles on every word.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
Sitting in a screen field, what's of technology you can
back guess it?

Speaker 17 (34:31):
Just touch your humanity, will love, spirit and trust will
never do completed in the mother's vision for the babies,
our societies and new fat eating all the roots like
we gotta get the groove.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
It's as trust not.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
Right now, I will freeze will.

Speaker 17 (34:51):
I love?

Speaker 3 (34:51):
You know you know what? Free love.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Our spirit, free spirit. Listen up, so no that you
can hear him. You know you know why shame so

(35:23):
no that you can hear him him. Race life, m
race life, m race life.

Speaker 11 (35:33):
M raised life, Embrace life, Embrace life, Embrace life, Embrace life.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Don't you wear fo here?

Speaker 6 (35:46):
I love it. That is called the sound of Humanity.
The band is Superbug, and we have super Bug here
with us yo live in studio. That's that's another all right,
So tell us about that that track. Repeat everything you
said while I was playing, uh no, but tell us
about that because all right.

Speaker 7 (36:02):
So let's see, I think most of the riffs in
that came out of just an improv jam with my
other band. When we'd warm up. We'd just warm up
and be over time. I kind of just accumulated some
riffs that I would go to kind of I would
say there would go to rifts for me and uh,
I put them all together in this format. Yeah, and
then we ended up doing it and then the background vocals, Uh,

(36:25):
not quite plagiarism, but maybe I got the idea of
them for a song called from a song called Floaty
on the first Foo Fighters record, where it's you know,
he floats floats away, she floats floats away, They float
float away. So for my part on that, I said,
you know, he don't know that, they don't know she
you know, that kind of thing. It's where I get
the idea. But as far as the actual words themselves, Worm,
you can speak to that you wrote them.

Speaker 6 (36:47):
Yeah, keep calling warm.

Speaker 8 (36:51):
I can't help justin.

Speaker 7 (36:53):
Would you care to speak on the lyrics.

Speaker 10 (36:56):
Yeah, it's just kind of about trying to with this
crazy world of technology, trying to remember what what's really
important that we're are, our humanity and it's kind of
where it's going from.

Speaker 7 (37:08):
Oh one other thing on that that you might notice,
the drums are just a friend from Biz Marquis. That
was a template.

Speaker 6 (37:14):
I did not notice that.

Speaker 9 (37:15):
So if you listen to it, I noticed, Well you
said something about the grooves.

Speaker 6 (37:19):
Yeah, the groove, Yeah I do. Yeah, yeah, I love
the groove on that. Yeah, but I didn't notice that specifically.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
That was it.

Speaker 7 (37:24):
I said, give me just a friend. Adam played a
very simple bassline, just kind of doubling the bass drum,
and it's just nice, low chill groove. But yeah, that
was the inspiration for it.

Speaker 6 (37:36):
You were also saying too off air that you weren't
happy with the solo.

Speaker 17 (37:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (37:41):
Yeah, that's the funniest thing because we recorded this live
and uh, you know there's a couple of clams on
solo for you that are on uh not in the loop.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (37:51):
My dad was an old jazz guy, so a clam
would be if they hit a bad note. Okay, so
that's what I'm referencing. So there's a couple of clams
in that solo, particularly the end, and I would like
but I didn't want to redo the whole track. Yeah,
And the producer is like, nah, it's great, just keep it,
and I'm like, all right, yeah, yeah, less work for me.

Speaker 6 (38:08):
Like, I think it was the right call.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (38:10):
I love the rye energy of it, and and I
love your tone on that too. It's so good, so good.
If you are just showing us we have superbug here
and so what's what's kind of the I mean, are
you guys already thinking about the next record or because
you've got you've got so much music. How long has
Hesitation Jelly been out?

Speaker 7 (38:30):
Year and a half now, may have last.

Speaker 6 (38:32):
Year, so it's been a little while.

Speaker 7 (38:33):
Yeah, Parker has been working on a home studio getting
that set up. Yeah, because uh, you know, when you
make a record, it's tricky making four people happy and
getting everybody to agree on it. And you know, if
we can do it ourselves at home, I guess my
attitude is if you think you can do it, but
we can do fight amongst So yeah, you know, because

(38:56):
I'm the impatient one. I just want to get it out.
I just want to do it. I don't want to
we take it good. Fine, well I'll admit it. So
you know, if we if we do it at home,
we can probably take a little more time. And I'm
not particular. So it's like, if you want to take
the extra time to make it you happy. I just
want loud guitar. I want to hear everything, and I'm good. Yeah,
and that's it. However you so choose, But yeah, we're

(39:18):
our goal is to kind of have something out by
next spring. So this winter we're gonna put some time
in on that.

Speaker 6 (39:24):
Okay, okay, excellent, it'll be another full length.

Speaker 7 (39:26):
Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (39:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (39:29):
The problem we're having is where we write so much
that it's remembering the songs we didn't record from when
we started that are still cool, oh, because they're like
you know, lost dogs, they kind of go away.

Speaker 8 (39:40):
The new ones are the most fun.

Speaker 7 (39:42):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 8 (39:43):
Get kind of sick of playing the same song over
and over again.

Speaker 6 (39:45):
So oh yeah, of course, of course. Yeah. And you
guys have a lot of music. I mean, is that
is that hard to like? Are you already thinking about
what songs you're going to record for the next.

Speaker 9 (39:54):
One or yeah, we got a few? Yeah, absolutely, yeah,
because you got a lot of.

Speaker 7 (39:58):
Well even like human the song you just played, that's
that's a great song. Listen to it.

Speaker 6 (40:02):
Now.

Speaker 7 (40:03):
We don't even play in our lives set anymore really,
because we've got new stuff that we like so much more.

Speaker 9 (40:07):
Yeah, yeah, we might throw it in.

Speaker 6 (40:09):
Yeah yeah, but yeah, that's a good problem to have though,
you know, you know, we we've.

Speaker 7 (40:14):
Got a gig coming up at mole Hill and Alstead,
we're looking at eighty minute set, which I got to
be honest, forty five are my favorite because you get on,
you get off, you hit him in the face, and
you go party.

Speaker 6 (40:23):
Yep yep.

Speaker 7 (40:25):
Hours not bad eighties like whoa. But we put the
set together and we're like, wow, this is a banger,
Like this is a solid set. All this stuff slaps.

Speaker 6 (40:31):
Yeah, No, that's really good. That's really good. Time goes
goes quickly. I do want to make sure we have
time to get that last start, that last track.

Speaker 7 (40:39):
D me too, because a big guitar solo.

Speaker 6 (40:41):
Bro, there you go, there you go. So remind us
some of shows coming up. We shoulder for listeners, just
joining us when we want to make sure people get
to get out to see you live.

Speaker 7 (40:51):
Our manager gave me this list to make sure that
we have everything on it. So much God yeah right.
Male Hill Theater, an Alsted on eight twenty three with
the Evocatives. Check them out, They're great. Auspicious Brew in
Dover on nine thirteen, The Button Factory and is Portsmouth
with Mercury Burns First on nine twenty seven October Fest.

(41:13):
I'm not sure this is actually this is a scoop. Everybody,
This hasn't even been announced yet. Oh so the Auburn
Pits on ten five, Hannecker Brewing Company on ten seventeen.
Auspicious Underground in Nashville on eleven fifteen. Uh so, yeah,
come out and check us on the road. Very cool,
you won't be disappointed.

Speaker 6 (41:30):
I'm not familiar with Auspicious Underground. Is that new?

Speaker 7 (41:32):
Or Terminal Underground? Sorry?

Speaker 6 (41:34):
Oh, Terminus Underground.

Speaker 7 (41:37):
I had that written down. I read it around.

Speaker 6 (41:39):
Yes, yes, okay, I'm glad. I'm glad I said that
because too.

Speaker 7 (41:42):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (41:43):
They're big supporters of the show. We love Eleanor and On.

Speaker 7 (41:45):
Yes, sorry Eleanor.

Speaker 6 (41:47):
Yeah, sorry, guys, She'll forgive you.

Speaker 8 (41:49):
But I think you said it the first time too.

Speaker 7 (41:53):
Yeah, that's my bad.

Speaker 8 (41:54):
I reade probably streaming in the bar. That's not what
it's called. That's not what it's called.

Speaker 7 (41:57):
And your anger is justified.

Speaker 6 (41:59):
I apologize. No, we love we love Terminus have you
have you been there yet?

Speaker 16 (42:03):
No?

Speaker 1 (42:03):
But we see it.

Speaker 6 (42:04):
It looks super cool.

Speaker 7 (42:05):
And the interesting thing about the bug I'm going to
refer to us in the third person is we haven't
really found a scene that we're in. We kind of
like the evocatives are kind of like, uh, you know, dancy, flowy, hippyish,
kind of jazzy stuff.

Speaker 6 (42:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (42:19):
We've played with the metal bands. Uh you know, we've
played with cover bands.

Speaker 6 (42:24):
We guys can fit in anyway, that's the cool part. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (42:26):
Yeah, we kind of can blend in, you know, and
it's it's a nice place to be.

Speaker 6 (42:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (42:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (42:31):
The thing I always say about Terminus is it's like
when you walk into that room the first time, it's
like another world. It looks cool, so cool.

Speaker 7 (42:37):
Yeah, yeah, we're super excited.

Speaker 6 (42:39):
Who else is on the show, do you know?

Speaker 7 (42:41):
I don't think it's been announced yet. Okay, it had
to It had to get postponed. It was supposed to
be in September. Now it's going in November. But that
works out great for us because we had nothing in
uh in November okay, okay, and we had it would
have been like three or four weeks in a row
and uh September.

Speaker 6 (42:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (42:58):
So that's the other thing we of doing this. But
we don't have to become a job right exactly, although
I think Parker has a great way of saying it.
It's like, hey, we were going to be jamming that
night anyway, So we're just doing the same thing at
a at a different spot.

Speaker 6 (43:12):
There you go, There you go.

Speaker 7 (43:13):
That's uh listening wives, that's our justification.

Speaker 6 (43:18):
And where should people go online? Where's the best place
to go online to keep up with everything that is doing.

Speaker 7 (43:22):
Facebook and Instagram, we'll both have everything on there. Okay,
we don't have like our own web page or anything yet.
We you know, we don't have any delusions of grandeur,
but we do have T shirt stickers, even friendship bracelets,
all that fun stuff. Yeah, and vinyl obviously, so if
you're interested, reach out. We can't get it to you. Yeah,
otherwise you can come to our show.

Speaker 6 (43:43):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 7 (43:44):
Shout out to the Shashking for having us in May too.
That was a great place to play, probably the I
don't know about you guys, that was probably the best club. Yeah.
That was such a great set and such a great sound.
The crowd was great. Thanks to Burn Permit for having us.
So yeah, it was amazing, outstanding, outstanding.

Speaker 6 (44:01):
So we'll we'll end the segment with this track, blame Game. Now,
what should we know about this? Anything we should know
about So this was.

Speaker 7 (44:07):
Actually written before I joined the band, So shout out
to Rick Norton for coming up with a great riff. Okay,
my my contribution was the solo at the end basically, Okay,
everything else is already there. Okay, you guys were And
what's it about? I know this is one of the
first things you really.

Speaker 8 (44:21):
It's kind of about the division in the country.

Speaker 6 (44:25):
Okay, Yeah, popular subject, that's for sure. That's for sure.
All right, So we're gonna hit this track in a moment.
But thank you, all three of you.

Speaker 7 (44:35):
We really appreciate you having us, absolutely absolutely and Hillsborough
represent Yeah, there you go, and we'll.

Speaker 6 (44:40):
Do it again in the future, especially you know, we
got new music on the way eventually. Okay, absolutely, all right,
So we will will end this segment with this, and
if you are listening live on Saturday, stick around. We've
got jam demic. Are they in the building? They are
in the building? H what's that? Kind of Okay, they're
gonna be coming up in the third hour, but we'll

(45:01):
cap this one off with this. This is blame Game,
This is superbugny.

Speaker 18 (45:12):
He know, the children in a line on the street,
the Loud Street, Happy Song, the Soundings a Street and
shoots Pretty Lasberry down on the knee, Send the thirty
tricks into the hole, tricks.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
With the land of a robot, take him over. Run
only know when we've been talking, staying on course, continue
play in the roads, watch Chol, you watch all cho.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
You want Tony do, watch on Jol. Then and the
crowds bree be sol Man and all. They're the reason
for paying on the people that we play.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
Dean head on sounding bro is the telling us the
tailing of the cookies and to take his fine on
the rail until we got a hold back it back
in front of the trail and let his mind yells over.
You do tell the fail with the soul of a robot,
take him over her.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
Goal down the rhythm for the top. I'm staying off
for continue playing the goals and watch all to do
what your to.

Speaker 3 (46:26):
Do, what your told.

Speaker 18 (46:29):
To?

Speaker 1 (46:30):
Watch your man have the crown screams hit so man.

Speaker 19 (46:38):
Then the reason for pain on the people that play.

(47:08):
We take of her fingers. Let all live a life
in shame. A million talking and searching for any want
to play.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
Shape of for their roun t. It's getting some dim.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
For create compliant.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
Children that will play right down and just want they're so.

Speaker 12 (48:50):
Do what do?

Speaker 3 (48:53):
What do what to t